Recaps

Lin Bai won the Purple Cloud Sword and two Grade Nine Spirit Tool Crystals at the auction, then used one to upgrade the Azure Song Sword before returning to the Sword Dao Institute. The chapter ended with an author’s milestone note announcing the upcoming Hero Ranking competition and later arcs.

• Lin Bai bid 150,000 points for the Purple Cloud Sword and won it after the price had risen to 100,000 points.
• Zhao Yongsheng revealed two Grade Nine Spirit Tool Crystals, and Lin Bai won them with a bid of 250,000 points.
• Lin Bai infused one Spirit Tool Crystal into the Azure Song Sword, raising it to Grade Nine, and kept the other for Jian Ruohan’s Startling Dream Sword.
• Lin Bai left War Soul City and returned to the Sword Dao Institute.
• The author thanked readers for reaching 1,000 chapters and announced the upcoming Hero Ranking, Five Peaks battlefield, and Crimson Immortal Sect storylines.

Lin Bai returned to the Sword Dao Institute after earning a fortune and becoming infamous across War Soul City for massacring the Demon Race in Dragon Burial Ravine. Zhu Kun reported that Lin Bai had secretly learned the Mo Wen Sword, and the institute’s leaders summoned Lin Bai to answer for it.

• Gong Chan revealed Lin Bai’s identity, and War Soul City learned that Lin Bai had topped the Hunter’s List with 1.9 million points and earned a place on the Demon Race’s Bounty List.
• Zhu Kun told Zhao Longtu that Lin Bai had killed more than three hundred experts in Dragon Burial Ravine, while Zhao Longtu considered waiting to kill Lin Bai on the Five Peaks battlefield because he feared Lin Yue.
• Zhu Kun returned to the Sword Dao Institute and reported Lin Bai’s secret study of the Mo Wen Sword, prompting Murong Hai, Murong Fei, and the elders to seek a meeting with Dugu Yun.
• Lin Bai returned to Shadow Mountain, shared drinks with Tang Bufan, and gave him a Grade Nine Spirit Tool sword.
• Pei Ji told Lin Bai that Dugu Yun and Murong Hai wanted to see him over Zhu Kun’s accusation, and Lin Bai agreed to go with him.

Lin Bai was summoned before the Sword Dao Institute’s Elders Council and accused by Murong Hai and Zhu Kun of secretly learning the Supreme Sword. Dugu Yun revealed that he had authorized Lin Bai to cultivate it, and Murong Hai challenged the dean’s authority as Murong Fei watched.

• Pei Ji brought Lin Bai from Shadow Mountain to the Elders Council, where Dugu Yun, Murong Hai, and Murong Fei were present.
• Murong Hai accused Lin Bai of secretly learning the Supreme Sword, and Zhu Kun testified that he had seen Lin Bai use its second move.
• Lin Bai said he had not secretly learned the technique, then told Dugu Yun that he had mastered the second move and was confident he could learn the rest.
• Dugu Yun declared that Lin Bai had not broken the rules because he had personally granted him permission to cultivate the Supreme Sword.
• Murong Hai challenged Dugu Yun, arguing that the dean had violated the rule restricting the Supreme Sword to the dean and the First Chief Disciple.

Lin Bai challenged Murong Fei for the position of chief senior disciple and the right to cultivate the Supreme Sword, turning the dispute over Dugu Yun’s authority into a trial by combat at the Hero Ranking tournament. Dugu Yun accepted the challenge’s terms, and Lin Bai prepared to spend the next half month mastering the Supreme Sword before facing Murong Fei.

• Lin Bai invoked the institute’s rules and challenged Murong Fei to become chief senior disciple and gain the right to cultivate the Supreme Sword.
• Murong Fei accepted the challenge, and Murong Hai approved it.
• Dugu Yun arranged for the duel to take place at the Hero Ranking tournament in half a month and promised to resign if Lin Bai lost.
• After the elders left, Dugu Yun questioned Lin Bai’s confidence in cultivating the Supreme Sword and defeating Murong Fei.
• Lin Bai said he would master the remaining seven moves of the Supreme Sword during the next half month, while Dugu Yun told him to remain in Mystic Art Valley.

Lin Bai gave Jian Ruohan a Spirit Tool Crystal, then comprehended the third form of the Mo Wen Sword and cultivated the first layer of Python Dragon Transformation. After enduring its painful transformation, he emerged with greatly increased toughness and healing, ready for the Hero Ranking tournament the next day.

• Lin Bai met Jian Ruohan outside the Elders Council and gave her a Spirit Tool Crystal to upgrade her Startling Dream Sword.
• Lin Bai spent seven days comprehending the Mo Wen Sword’s third form, Wandering the World with a Sword, and used 700,000 points.
• Lin Bai studied Python Dragon Transformation and spent 300,000 points on pills and medicines to cultivate its first layer.
• Lin Bai completed the transformation, found that a Grade Nine Spirit Tool could barely pierce his skin, and watched his wound heal quickly.
• Lin Bai looked forward to facing Murong Fei in the Hero Ranking tournament the next day.

Lin Bai and Tang Bufan entered the Hero Ranking Tournament’s shattered secret realm, where they would search for opportunities over three days. Lin Bai arrived alone, received a Spirit Breaking Pearl, and saw that he had only one zhang of fortune-infused spiritual energy.

• Lin Bai and Tang Bufan went to Divine Relic Ridge’s central square as the Nine Wilderness Bell announced the tournament’s start.
• Zhao Longtu explained that contestants would enter a shattered secret realm for three days and could use a Spirit Breaking Pearl to leave early.
• More than a hundred thousand martial artists rushed through the opened light gate, and Tang Bufan warned Lin Bai to be careful.
• Lin Bai noticed Murong Fei, Wu Qiu, Cai Yunqi, and Zhao Longtu watching him before he crossed through the light gate.
• Lin Bai arrived in the secret realm, received a Spirit Breaking Pearl, and saw one zhang of fortune-infused spiritual energy behind him; Tang Bufan was not with him.

Lin Bai entered the nameless secret realm to plunder aura of fortune, learning how it fueled cultivation breakthroughs and shaped the Hero Ranking. After defeating a Blade Dao Academy disciple, he took most of the man's fortune and continued into the forest with nine zhang of aura behind him.

• Dugu Yun explained that martial artists gained aura of fortune based on their martial souls and could increase it by plundering others before refining it to break through.
• Lin Bai reviewed last year's Hero Ranking and prepared to seek fortune in the Manggu Forest, where powerful former-ranked competitors remained.
• A Blade Dao Academy disciple with sixteen zhang of aura ambushed Lin Bai and attacked him with a blade ray.
• Lin Bai repelled the attacker with one sword strike, then demanded fifteen zhang of his fortune in exchange for sparing him.
• The disciple transferred fifteen zhang to Lin Bai and fled, leaving Lin Bai with nine zhang of aura of fortune.

Lin Bai rescued Lin Ling from seven Fist Dao Academy disciples in the secret realm and learned that the chief disciples of five academies were hunting him. He asked Lin Ling to alert them so he could confront them and seize their fortune.

• Seven Fist Dao Academy disciples cornered Lin Ling and tried to stop her from leaving the secret realm.
• Lin Bai arrived, killed the seven men with one sword strike, and absorbed their fortune.
• Lin Bai learned that Lin Ling had entered the secret realm with Sword Dao Institute disciples before the Fist Dao Academy forced them to leave.
• Lin Ling told Lin Bai that the chief disciples of the Blade Dao Academy, Fist Dao Academy, Spear Dao Academy, Hatchling Dragon Academy, and Sword Dao Institute were looking for him.
• Lin Bai asked Lin Ling to notify the five chief disciples and said he would wait for them on the mountain ahead.

Lin Bai waited at Mount Yun Ding as the chief disciples and experts from several academies set out to confront him. Tang Bufan arrived first among Lin Bai’s companions, but Chou Yun Kui appeared at the chapter’s end, launching an attack.

• News spread that Lin Bai was waiting at Mount Yun Ding, prompting Wu Qiu, Cai Yunqi, Chou Yun Kui, Murong Fei, and Tian Changlin to head there with their disciples.
• The Fist Dao Academy experts revealed that Vice-Dean Liu Jingfeng had ordered them to kill Lin Bai, whose background and conflicts with the other academies remained unclear.
• After waiting two days, Lin Bai refused Lin Ling’s pleas to flee and continued expecting his opponents.
• Tang Bufan arrived, teased Lin Ling, and agreed to take her away from the coming fight.
• Chou Yun Kui roared from the distant horizon and sent a dazzling blade ray toward Mount Yun Ding, prompting Lin Bai to recognize him as the first opponent to arrive.

The nine deans watched the secret-realm tournament and reacted to the Sword Dao Institute’s powerful new disciples, while Dugu Yun focused on Lin Bai. At Mount Yun Ding, Chou Yun Kui arrived first and challenged Lin Bai, beginning their fight.

• Zhao Longtu and the nine deans watched the projections as Zhao Longtu praised Ye Jianqiu’s Heaven Grade Nine martial soul and thirty-six zhang of fortune.
• The Fist Dao Academy’s dean listed the Sword Dao Institute disciples’ fortunes, prompting the deans to marvel at the academy’s potential.
• Dugu Yun defended his disciples’ inexperience and secretly anticipated that six Sword Dao Institute disciples could reach next year’s Hero Ranking.
• The deans noticed the chief disciples rushing toward Mount Yun Ding, where Dugu Yun spotted Lin Bai waiting alone.
• Chou Yun Kui reached Mount Yun Ding, threatened to repay Lin Bai for his humiliation, and lunged at him with his saber.

Lin Bai defeated Chou Yun Kui’s Shattered Dream Saber Art with the Nirvana Sword Manual, sending the Blade Dao Academy chief disciple flying. As the gathered disciples watched, Cai Yunqi arrived and challenged Lin Bai to die.

• Chou Yun Kui used the Shattered Dream Saber Art against Lin Bai, but Lin Bai struck him with the Nirvana Sword Manual and sent him flying while demanding his fortune.
• Ye Jianqiu, Jian Ruohan, Feng Yunxiu, Long Qingfeng, Qin Beiao, and the other academy chiefs gathered around Mount Yun Ding to watch the fight.
• Hu Zhongyue and Xun Han predicted Chou Yun Kui would win once he used the Limitless Blade, while Gu Yueqing watched Lin Bai with worry.
• Cai Yunqi arrived with a spear and roared that Lin Bai should prepare to die.

Lin Bai fought off Cai Yunqi and Chou Yun Kui without being wounded, while Jian Ruohan held back from joining the battle. When Wu Qiu arrived demanding the Python Dragon Transformation, Lin Bai challenged him over their past and attacked, leaving him battling three chief senior disciples at once.

• Cai Yunqi and Chou Yun Kui both attacked Lin Bai, but he held his own through more than a hundred exchanges without being injured.
• Jian Ruohan drew the Startling Dream Sword, but Ye Jianqiu persuaded her to wait and offered to intervene if Lin Bai needed help.
• Wu Qiu arrived and demanded that Lin Bai hand over the Python Dragon Transformation.
• Lin Bai reminded Wu Qiu of their past and declared he could defeat him without waiting for their one-year agreement to expire.
• Lin Bai continued fending off Cai Yunqi and Chou Yun Kui while attacking Wu Qiu, shocking the watching martial artists.

Lin Bai fought off an expanding group of Hero Ranking experts on Mount Yun Ding as the Fist Dao Academy joined the attack. Murong Fei arrived and declared that he would kill Lin Bai, and Jian Ruohan rushed in to stand beside him.

• Cai Yunqi, Wu Qiu, and Chou Yun Kui attacked Lin Bai, but he held his ground against all three.
• Tian Changlin arrived with Lu Lun, Rong Jun, Luo Xuntian, and Shi Yifan, and ordered the four to attack Lin Bai while he planned to seize the other fighters’ fortunes.
• Lin Bai fought all seven attackers without falling behind and noted that Murong Fei was the last one he was waiting for.
• Murong Fei arrived with the Sword Dao Institute, told Tian Changlin that Lin Bai was doomed to die by his hand, and charged into the battle.
• Jian Ruohan joined Lin Bai with the Startling Dream Sword, and Lin Bai shouted at her for coming.

Lin Bai refused Jian Ruohan and Ye Jianqiu’s help and challenged the Hero Ranking warriors alone. He killed Chou Yun Kui with one sword, leaving the other fighters stunned and Dugu Yun excited by the possibility that Lin Bai had mastered the Supreme Sword.

• Jian Ruohan and Ye Jianqiu arrived to help Lin Bai, but he told them to stand aside and face the opponents himself.
• Lin Bai drew the Azure Song Sword and the Purple Cloud Sword, then declared that he would take on all eight warriors alone.
• Chou Yun Kui attacked Lin Bai with the Blade Dao Academy’s Limitless Blade, but Lin Bai’s sword shattered the attack and pierced Chou Yun Kui’s heart.
• Chou Yun Kui died, and Lin Bai absorbed his fortune, increasing his own from fourteen zhang to twenty-nine zhang.
• The Blade Dao Academy’s dean angrily confronted Dugu Yun, while Dugu Yun privately celebrated Lin Bai’s strength and wondered if he had mastered the Supreme Sword.

Lin Bai killed Chou Yun Kui and Cai Yunqi in swift sword battles, then faced a coordinated attack from four Fist Dao Academy disciples. He slew Luo Xuntian and drove back the others, while the fight against Lu Lun, Shi Yifan, and Rong Jun continued.

• Lin Bai killed Chou Yun Kui with one sword strike, shocking the martial artists watching.
• Cai Yunqi unleashed the God Burial Spear and the Dawn Spear, but Lin Bai shattered the attack and cut him in half as he tried to flee.
• Lu Lun, Luo Xuntian, Shi Yifan, and Rong Jun attacked Lin Bai together, revealing that Vice Dean Liu Jingfeng had ordered them to kill him.
• Lin Bai used Sweep of a Thousand Armies to repel Lu Lun, Shi Yifan, and Rong Jun and kill Luo Xuntian.

Lin Bai killed six of the nine Hero Ranking experts on Mount Yun Ding, leaving only Wu Qiu, Murong Fei, and Tian Changlin. He challenged the three survivors, but Wu Qiu shattered Lin Bai’s sword attack and sent him flying with a punch.

• Lin Bai slew Luo Xuntian, then used his speed and twin swords to kill Lu Lun, Rong Jun, and Shi Yifan before their Martial Soul Secret Methods could form.
• Lin Bai’s fortune rose to forty zhang, and he challenged Wu Qiu, Murong Fei, and Tian Changlin to face him together or one at a time.
• Wu Qiu approached Lin Bai and attacked him, revealing his body-refining strength as he shattered Lin Bai’s sword technique without being wounded.
• Wu Qiu struck Lin Bai in the chest with a dragon-like punch and sent him flying more than a hundred meters.

Lin Bai defeated Wu Qiu by revealing Supreme Sword’s Third Form, then faced Tian Changlin and Murong Fei as they joined forces against him. Their clash began an earth-shaking battle atop Mount Yun Ding.

• Wu Qiu used Fish-Dragon Transformation to withstand Lin Bai’s swordsmanship and taunted him.
• Lin Bai revealed Supreme Sword’s Third Form and shattered Wu Qiu’s fish-scale defenses.
• Lin Bai killed Wu Qiu, whose final thoughts regretted provoking him and breaking his engagement with Bai Xiaoxiao.
• The nine academies’ deans and Murong Fei recognized Lin Bai’s Supreme Sword, while Tian Changlin proposed that he and Murong Fei attack together.
• Lin Bai accepted their challenge, and the three began fighting atop Mount Yun Ding.

Lin Bai fought Murong Fei and Tian Changlin atop Mount Yun Ding, but their combined attacks left him bloodied and apparently defeated. As Murong Fei moved in for the kill, Lin Bai revealed that he had mastered the Supreme Sword’s fourth form, Heavens Collapse.

• Lin Bai, Murong Fei, and Tian Changlin unleashed their strongest attacks, shattering Mount Yun Ding as the watching martial artists marveled at their battle.
• Lin Bai and Murong Fei exchanged the first and second forms of the Supreme Sword, and both clashes ended in draws.
• Tian Changlin attacked Lin Bai with the Heaven Covering Hand while Murong Fei struck with the Supreme Sword’s third form, sending Lin Bai crashing to the ground with a near-fatal sword wound.
• The watching martial artists and Divine Relic Ridge’s deans believed Lin Bai had lost, while Dugu Yun wondered whether Lin Bai had only cultivated the Supreme Sword up to its third form.
• As Murong Fei thrust at him to kill, Lin Bai laughed and announced the Supreme Sword’s fourth form, Heavens Collapse.

Lin Bai unleashed Heavenfall, the Supreme Sword’s fourth technique, and gravely wounded Murong Fei before killing him. As Dugu Yun celebrated the technique’s emergence, the Fist Dao Academy’s dean recognized the threat it posed to the other academies.

• Lin Bai struck Murong Fei with Heavenfall, leaving him badly wounded and stunning the martial artists watching Mount Yun Ding.
• The deans watching from Divine Relic Ridge’s central plaza reacted to Lin Bai’s use of the Supreme Sword’s fourth technique, and the Fist Dao Academy’s dean developed killing intent toward him.
• Dugu Yun celebrated Lin Bai’s achievement and declared that the Supreme Sword would make the Sword Dao Institute the foremost academy.
• Lin Bai shattered Murong Fei’s Eternal Sword Pagoda, rejected his pleas for mercy, and killed him with a sword strike to the throat.
• Murong Hai cried out in despair when he witnessed Murong Fei’s death.

Lin Bai killed Tian Changlin after defeating Murong Fei, raising his fortune to seventy-two zhangs. With the battle at Mount Yun Ding over and one day remaining in the secret realm, he let his companions pursue fortune while he began refining his own.

• Lin Bai defeated Murong Fei and turned to face Tian Changlin, who offered his fortune in exchange for his life.
• Lin Bai rejected Tian Changlin's offer, shattered his Heaven Covering Hand, and killed him with a sword strike.
• Lin Bai devoured Tian Changlin's fifty zhangs of fortune, bringing his total to seventy-two zhangs and astonishing the watching martial artists.
• Tang Bufan, Lin Ling, Jian Ruohan, and Ye Jianqiu joined Lin Bai, and he urged them to keep seizing fortune while he chose not to compete for more.
• Jian Ruohan, Ye Jianqiu, Tang Bufan, and Lin Ling set out to challenge other martial artists as Lin Bai sat down to refine his fortune.

Lin Bai refined the secret realm’s fortune and broke through to the third level of the Earth Core Realm, then was transported back to the Nine Academies’ central square. Dugu Yun shielded him from the hostility of the academy leaders, while Hua Yuxian and the Blade Fiend left to pursue their plans at the Five Peaks.

• Hua Yuxian and the Blade Fiend discussed Lin Bai’s victory, crossed dead geniuses off a list, and added Lin Bai as a valuable prospect for the Holy Sect.
• Hua Yuxian told the Blade Fiend to go with her to the Five Peaks and have their hidden agents investigate what they were seeking.
• Lin Bai refined seventy-two zhang of fortune and advanced from the ninth level of the Human Core Realm to the third level of the Earth Core Realm.
• The Spirit Breaking Pearl shattered and transported Lin Bai out of the secret realm to the central square, where seven figures directed killing intent at him.
• Dugu Yun stepped in front of Lin Bai, apologized to the other academies, and defused their hostility by promising gifts.
• The Fist Dao Academy’s dean congratulated Dugu Yun and predicted that Lin Bai would become Divine Relic Ridge’s fourth Sect Master.

Lin Bai topped the Hero Ranking after the secret-realm fortune battle, and five Sword Dao Institute disciples made the list. At the Elders Council, Dugu Yun asked the five Earth Core Realm disciples whether they wanted to go to the Five Peaks, and Lin Bai accepted so he could pursue a meeting with Su Yanhua.

• Zhao Longtu announced Lin Bai as first on the Hero Ranking with seventy-two zhang of fortune, followed by Ye Jianqiu and Jian Ruohan, while five Sword Dao Institute disciples placed in the top ten.
• Zhao Longtu said Earth Core Realm martial artists could choose to go to the Five Peaks, and Lin Bai resolved to become the Five Peaks Holy Son to meet Su Yanhua and learn about Lin Duo.
• Dugu Yun brought Lin Bai, Jian Ruohan, Ye Jianqiu, Long Qingfeng, and Hua Yuxian to the Elders Council and asked whether they wished to cultivate at the Five Peaks.
• Lin Bai confronted Long Qingfeng about the Dragon Slayer Sword, but Long Qingfeng insisted it was his family's inherited art.
• Lin Bai immediately said he wished to go to the Five Peaks.

Lin Bai and four other disciples chose to leave the Sword Dao Institute for the Five Peaks, which Dugu Yun revealed was a battlefield. Lin Bai accepted protective Sword Qi, disclosed that he had mastered the Supreme Sword, and prepared to depart after promising to stay alive and meet Tang Bufan at the Five Peaks.

• Lin Bai, Jian Ruohan, Ye Jianqiu, Long Qingfeng, and Hua Yuxian chose to go to the Five Peaks, and Dugu Yun said envoys would arrive in ten days to take them there.
• Lin Bai reminded Pei Ji of their agreement and said he had won first place on the Hero Ranking for the Sword Dao Institute.
• Dugu Yun told Lin Bai that the Five Peaks were a battlefield and gave him three strands of Sword Qi capable of killing ninth-level Heaven Core Realm martial artists.
• Lin Bai revealed that he had mastered the Supreme Sword, and Dugu Yun warned him that the Fist Dao Academy might target him for it.
• Lin Bai returned to Shadow Mountain, where he learned Tang Bufan and Lin Ling had both reached the ninth level of the Human Core Realm.
• Lin Bai drank with Tang Bufan and promised to wait for him at the Five Peaks.

Lin Bai and the other Sword Dao Institute disciples left for the Five Peaks, where Jiang Jun brought them through a hidden formation. They arrived before five enormous mountains filled with cities and martial artists.

• Tang Bufan saw Lin Bai off as Lin Bai prepared to leave Shadow Mountain No. 81.
• Lin Bai met Jian Ruohan, Ye Jianqiu, Hua Yuxian, Long Qingfeng, and the others at the Sword Dao Institute before Jiang Jun arrived to escort them.
• Dugu Yun told the disciples to take care and Lin Bai bowed to him before boarding Jiang Jun's spirit boat.
• After nine days of travel, Jiang Jun announced the group's return and voices opened a hidden passage through the forest.
• Lin Bai and the others passed through the formation and saw the Five Peaks, five towering mountains containing vast cities.

Jiang Jun brought Lin Bai, Ye Jianqiu, and Jian Ruohan to the Fifth Peak and explained that the enormous battlefield nearby was the long-lost ruins of the Crimson Immortal Sect. As the group prepared to land, Long Qingfeng decided to report the ruins to the Azure Dragon Empire.

• Jiang Jun piloted the spirit boat toward the Fifth Peak and told Lin Bai and his companions that the surrounding wasteland was the Crimson Immortal Sect's former territory.
• Jiang Jun explained that the powerful sect had vanished overnight and that Luo Qi later uncovered its sealed ruins, where tens of millions of disciples had died.
• Jiang Jun said Luo Qi founded the Divine Relic Ridge Martial Artists' Alliance to explore the ruins, which humans and the Demon Race now shared under an agreement barring Sky Realm experts.
• Jiang Jun warned Lin Bai and the others of powerful demons and a rumored disaster connected to the Crimson Immortal Sect's destruction.
• Long Qingfeng resolved to send news of the ruins to the Azure Dragon Empire so it could seize them and rise to power.